Interdisciplinary Concept Research Articles

Pity as pain: Narrative Medicine and Melville's "Bartleby"

Narrative Medicine is an interdisciplinary concept that joins literary texts and theory on the one hand with medical education on the other. It suggests that specific skills can be practiced by reflecting about literature and the arts, which represent existential human experiences. These skills are narrative competence, tolerance for ambiguity, changing one's perspective, empathy, and self-care. This article describes aNarrative Medicine course and focuses on one unit in which Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener: AStory of Wall Street" was discussed. In combining participant observation and aclose reading of the short story, the article describes how students responded to the text and how "Bartleby" speaks to central topics in medical practice, such as pain management and the significance (and limits) of pity and empathy. Melville's text represents pain and empathy in complex and ambiguous ways. In presenting acompassionate narrator who ultimately fails to empathize with the pain he perceives in his employee, the story challenges readers to reflect on the complexities of dealing with the suffering of others and invites adiscussion about professionalism, personal values, and expectations. Literary texts in amedical classroom can be aproductive resource to practice and critically discuss competences identified in the National Competency-Based Learning Objective Catalogue for Medicine2.0.

APPLICATION OF MODELS OF THE STRUCTURE OF SEPARATION SURFACES IN STEELS WHEN OBTAINING PRODUCTS WITH A GIVEN LIFE CYCLE

Background. The development of digital mechanical engineering requires the development and use of interdisciplinary concepts and models of the behavior of heterogeneous polycrystalline materials under the influence of technological and operational loads. In this regard, the development and use of approaches to modeling and analysis of the mechanical behavior of the boundary zones of separation of products, taking into account their energy, becomes important. The development of such approaches makes it possible to solve an actual scientific and technical problem – optimization of the modes of technological processing of products with a given life cycle. Objective. The use of system models of the structure of steels for the development of computational schemes and methods of managing the structural-energy state of the separation surfaces of structural components when obtaining products with increased reliability parameters, taking into account the conditions of their operation. Methods. The analysis of the structure was carried out using the concept of invariant modeling, the results of metallographic and factographic studies, electron microscopy. The assessment of the structural and energetic state of grain separation surfaces after ionplasma etching of the samples was carried out, wear and impact bending tests were carried out, and system computer simulation of the properties of polycrystalline systems was carried out using the FEniCS open finite element analysis package in Python. Results. When applying the energy description of continuous non-local environments, it was established that depending on the angles between the boundaries at the joints of the grains, the structural and energetic state of this region and its ability to form microdefects change. At angles between 140‒180°, zones are formed with a high capacity for the formation of intergranular damage and destruction under load. It is shown that the intensity of wear and intergranular fracture upon impact increases depending on the number of triple joints, in which the boundaries differ significantly in terms of energy level. Steel 40X (5135 Steel) is more sensitive to the formation of triple junctions with a high energy gradient during heat treatment than steels containing nickel, molybdenum and silicon. Conclusions. On the basis of hierarchical modeling of the structure of polycrystals, new approaches are proposed and an algorithm is created to determine the relationships between the structure of the separation surfaces of steels and their operational reliability. Diffuse damage is formed on the separation surfaces between the triple junctions of grains with a high energy gradient. Reducing the share of triple joints, which differ significantly in terms of energy when designing the technological regimes of the quenching and tempering processes, made it possible to increase the wear resistance of improved steels by 48‒53 %.

Improving interprofessional communication: Conceptualizing, operationalizing and testing a healthcare improvisation communication workshop

BackgroundCommunication errors are a leading cause of adverse events in the acute and ambulatory healthcare setting. We now understand that communication within and across professions and patients is a complex achievement with numerous barriers, including cultural, educational, and structural hurdles. Improvisation has been identified as an approach with great potential to develop communication skills for multi-disciplinary healthcare students. ObjectiveWe report on the interdisciplinary conceptualization, operationalization, and effectiveness testing of a novel educational healthcare improvisation communication workshop. DesignProspective pre-post test experimental. SettingUniversity of California, Irvine. ParticipantsTotal of 158 nursing, medicine, and population health students. MethodsWe conceptualized improvisation through the constructs of presence, trust, and acceptance to develop workshop activities, then used the Kirkpatrick Learning Framework to test the workshop's feasibility, learning outcomes, and preliminary behavior changes. ResultsParticipants rated the feasibility of the workshop highly. Pre-post workshop effectiveness testing showed significant increases in communication and collaboration competencies. Qualitative data suggested workshop activities were powerful learning modality because they were premised by introducing their conceptual underpinning and providing tangible examples via the video and debrief. Qualitative data also suggested preliminary behavior changes post workshop. ConclusionsWe have developed and tested a communication teaching modality with strong conceptual grounding and empirical evidence of its efficacy in engaging healthcare students in collaborative communication, with documented evidence of learning that health educators can use in their courses. Future research is needed (and currently underway) to generate the evidence that the workshop can be adopted and sustained within a multi-school curriculum, which includes testing the feasibility of cross-school curriculum logistics (i.e. cross-listing the course to meet different school registrar policies, teaching workload sharing across faculty, etc.), as well as continued effectiveness testing.

Sacroperineal Reconstruction With Inferior Gluteal Artery Perforator Flaps After Resection of Locally Advanced Primary and Recurrent Anorectal Malignancy.

Modern interdisciplinary concepts with involvement of various surgical specialties can considerably reduce perioperative morbidity after sacroperineal resection of locally advanced primary or recurrent anorectal malignancies. Resultant defects can represent a major challenge for reconstruction particularly with chemoradiotherapy. The aim is to assess the long-term outcomes of sacroperineal reconstruction using inferior gluteal artery perforator flaps.We performed a retrospective data analysis on 31 patients who were treated with inferior gluteal artery perforator flaps (n = 61) over the period 2009-2021. The demographic data, comorbidities, operative details, and outcomes with special focus on wound infection and dehiscence were recorded.The median age was 42 year (range, 25-82 years) with preponderance of males (n = 21). The follow-up period ranged from 6 to 80 months. Early minor complications included superficial wound dehiscence (3), which was managed conservatively, whereas the major (2) included deep wound collection and infection (1), which required surgical drainage, and perineal hernia, which required repair. All flaps survived completely.Inferior gluteal artery perforator flaps are safe, robust, and reliable with less donor side morbidity and positive impact on quality of life. It should be considered as a valuable tool in the reconstructive armamentarium of sacroperineal defects within a multidisciplinary setting.

The Role of Energy Literacy in Supporting Energy Conservation: Perspective from Indonesian Citizens

Energy plays a strategic role in human life today. In this case, energy is an interdisciplinary concept from the concepts of science and the environment to global social problems. One aspect of energy development is energy conservation, where efficient and rational use of energy is carried out without reducing energy use performance. To increase public awareness and participation on energy issues, especially those related to energy conservation, it is necessary to increase knowledge about energy in the wider community, one of which is through energy literacy. This is because knowing energy will empower people to make wise decisions and take responsible action regarding energy use. Energy literacy here can be obtained through formal and informal education. This study investigates the condition of energy literacy in Indonesian society in general through a sampling method, and it is found that the level of energy literacy in Indonesian society is on a moderate scale, but it is still not enough to reach the expected level of energy literacy, while the energy literacy level is less. Energy literacy and energy conservation will also be increasingly hampered. Therefore, it is hoped that an increase in education or energy literacy related to formal and non-formal education so that people are more familiar with and apply energy conservation in their daily lives.

The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals

ABSTRACTThe extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals associated with the ‘Great Acceleration’ enables precise and unambiguous recognition of the Anthropocene as an epoch/series within the Geological Time Scale. A mid‐20th century inception is consistent with Earth System science analysis in which the Anthropocene term and concept arose, and would reflect the reality that our planet has sharply exited the range of natural variability characterizing the Holocene Epoch/Series, which the Anthropocene would therefore terminate. An alternative, recently proposed ‘geological event’ approach to the Anthropocene is primarily an interdisciplinary concept, encompassing historical and socio‐cultural processes and their global environmental impacts over a diachronous timeframe that extends back at least many millennia. Resembling more closely a geological episode than an event, it would decouple the Anthropocene from its chronostratigraphic delineation and association with an abrupt planetary perturbation; but separately defined and differently named it might be usefully complementary. We recommend a clear separation of epochs, events and episodes. An epoch is a formal subdivision of the Geological Time Scale, and its correlation may be assisted by one or more events; an event is usually, and particularly in the Quaternary, a brief incident or perturbation with a sedimentary expression; and an episode is a longer, internally complex time interval that may include several events and even extend across several epochs.

Enforcing Double Materiality in Global Sustainability Reporting for Developing Economies: Reflection on Ghana’s Oil Exploration and Mining Sectors

While the development of globally accepted sustainability reporting standards initiated by the IFRS Foundation has largely engaged stakeholders in developed economies, the stakes for developing economies could be compromised without an explicit consideration of their sustainability issues within this standard-setting framework. This paper examines the need to develop global sustainability reporting standards based on the principle of double materiality to warrant that both the target towards carbon net-zero by 2050 under the Paris Agreement and the subsequent promise to accelerate under COP26 are achieved with efficacy. Adopting a multiple-case study approach, this paper reveals the limitations of existing sustainability reporting in the absence of double materiality in a developing economy. Specifically, the analyses reveal limited climate-related disclosures among selected cases in Ghana. Available disclosures connote increasing GHG emissions over the period under consideration. This study also shows weak disclosure comparability across the companies following similar reporting standards. Overall, it argues that enforcement of double materiality to embrace sustainability issues impacting both developed and developing economies is necessary for an effective transformation towards a low-carbon global economy. It contributes to the existing body of knowledge by elucidating double materiality as a pertinent interdisciplinary concept and devising a holistic framework for the emerging global sustainability reporting system to underscore governance accountability for external costs to the environment. Global sustainability reporting standards with a myopic focus on conventional financial matters in the absence of double materiality remain a disclosure system with implausible impact on climate change.

Ландшафт культуры в рассказе Ужээрту «Судьба охотника»

The aim of the study is to identify, describe and interpret the landscape of the Evenki and Chinese cultures by the material of the story of the Evenki prose writer from China Uzheertu “Hunter’s Fate”. Within the framework of the article, the interdisciplinary concept “cultural landscape” in a literary text has been clarified, which refers to the world order as a projection of the author’s mental culture with a special system of value relations to the nature, man and society. Scientific novelty is determined by an interdisciplinary study of the “cultural landscape” by the material of fiction, in particular the national story, the introduction of the “small prose” of the Chinese Evenki literature as an object of study to the Russian literary criticism. As a result, the semantics, functions of the epigraph and title of the story have been revealed, an interpretation of the protagonist’s image and the main conflict of the work has been proposed, it has been concluded that the landscape of culture in Uzheertu’s story is determined by the worldview categories and ethno-reality of the Evenki and Chinese cultures.

PROBLEMS FORMATION OF IDEOLOGICAL STABILITY OF CADETS OF EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA

The article presents the author’s view on the problem of ideological stability in modern realities. The article examines the essence and features of the process of forming the ideological stability of cadets of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia as a social component of the moral and psychological support of their official activities. Based on the results of the study, the paper presents an analysis of the modern approach to the formation of ideological stability of cadets of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in educational and service activities. The article considers the methodological approach to the interdisciplinary concept of “personality”, the features of ensuring professional orientation and the process of adaptation of cadets to educational activities. The article reflects the nuances of the alarming state of ideological confrontation with Western apologists, provides a number of modern analytical examples with characteristics of the main areas of counteraction. As today’s practice shows, in the conditions of a frenzied propaganda campaign, against the background of a migration explosion, security, the standard of living of ordinary citizens and GDP growth, the level of value orientations in the European Union is also gradually decreasing, and Western political scientists are trying to denigrate the achievements and great exploits of the Russian people in all ways, and not only the media. In accordance with the logic and purpose of the article, the main directions for the ideological and humanistic formation of the personality of a cadet, a future law enforcement officer, a citizen of Russia in the conditions of educational activity and further service are presented.

An Optimization Method for Integrating Educational Information Resources Based on Edge Computing

This paper adopts an edge computing approach to conduct in-depth research and analysis on the optimization of educational information resource integration and constructs an integrated teaching resource design model concerning the integrated teaching model, human-centered mobile learning resource design, and the interdisciplinary concept of physics subject teaching method. The learning field constituted by the model is divided into two parts, the explicit field and the potential field and then designs a five-stage teaching resource based on the model. A five-stage teaching resource development path was designed based on the model. Based on the cloud service center model, we propose a hierarchical mechanism for sharing educational information resources and analyze how each hierarchical entity constructs and shares resources and the rights and responsibilities of each hierarchical entity; we explain the meaning and functions of the personalized educational resource integrated development environment provided by the cloud service center for users. The dynamic evaluation model of the value of educational information resources is summarized and proposed for the resource exchange behavior in the sharing of educational information resources, and the significance of the calculation method of resource value, parameter values, and resource value difference for resource sharing is introduced. Firstly, the mechanism for coconstruction of educational information resources at different levels is proposed, and the construction tasks of subjects at different levels in the process of coconstruction and sharing of resources are elaborated. The sharing mechanism of educational information resources covering the regularization system, evaluation mechanism, incentive mechanism, problem handling mechanism, and supporting service mechanism is proposed, and a dynamic evaluation model of the value of educational information resources is designed to improve the enthusiasm of the coconstruction and sharing subjects.

Digital Poetry as a Dublin City Data Interface

This paper explores placemaking as an interdisciplinary concept between the field of digital humanities and human geography. Literary placemaking techniques are used in a critical analysis to unpack methods of meaning making and uncover paths for future development of literary interfaces.

Aktual'nye problemy izucheniya social'nyh i gumanitarnyh nauk v kachestve mezhdisciplinarnogo voprosa v yazykovoj srede

In this study, the concept of interdisciplinarity, which is becoming increasingly popular and influential, will be discussed in the context of a relatively long history of disciplinary differences, and will also critically analyze the various definitions of the concept and the problematization of the concept in different contexts.

Моделювання розвитку венчурного бізнесу

In modern conditions, innovation is one of the most important factors of economic development, and the development of innovation is the main condition for ensuring the competitiveness of the economy. Therefore, modeling the development of venture business is relevant and very important for the development of investment and innovation market and structural adjustment of Ukraine's economy. The development of venture financing as a proven extrabudgetary financing in science-intensive sectors of the economy and its adaptation to the realities of our country will allow it as one of the most effective tools for commercializing scientific innovations to become a promising source of financial resources for innovation. The level of economic development of venture structures is determined not so much by the scale of activity, but by the innovative orientation and flexibility of management. Among the main problems associated with investment activities are the problems of stimulating systemic innovations, from basic research, stages of implementation of new technologies, goods and services, to commercial development of new products, creating conditions that will promote venture capital, and modeling and forecasting. venture business. World experience proves the important role of innovative entrepreneurship in the transformation of the economic mechanism, increasing the intensity of its restructuring, where the dominant development should be the effective use of innovation potential of the country. Given the difficulties in attracting material resources by domestic businesses, it is necessary to provide for the development of the venture industry through the active attraction of funds from commercial banks and foreign capital. The issues of modeling the development of venture business deserve special attention, which requires the study and use of significant practical experience of Western venture structures. It is clear that the main elements of the mechanism of risk financing of innovation, which normally work in a highly developed market economy, can not be used without change in the domestic economy where there is no competition and sources of free capital. An important factor in intensifying venture business in Ukraine is the improvement of methodological support for venture capital. Such activities concern special forms and types of implementation of the innovation and investment process as a whole. First of all, the issues of modeling the development of venture business in Ukraine are becoming important in today's conditions. Since development is a rather multifaceted and interdisciplinary concept, including a wide variety of indicators, the studied developments often contain various methods, approaches and indicators for evaluating and modeling the development of venture funds. In addition, the complexity and versatility of asset management activities complicate the process of modeling the development of venture business. Summarizing the above, it is worth noting that the results of the study can be concluded: taking into account the work of both domestic and foreign scientists, in modeling the development of venture business use different models and perform modeling through the prism of venture business risk analysis, systemic risk, venture attractiveness analysis investment projects, the formation of a balanced investment portfolio, etc., taking into account both the availability of information and the tasks and objectives set by scientists.

Ladder of Eckhaus instabilities and parametric conversion in chi(2) microresonators

Low loss microresonators have revolutionised nonlinear and quantum optics over the past decade. In particular, microresonators with the second order, chi(2), nonlinearity have the advantages of broad spectral tunability and low power frequency conversion. Recent observations have highlighted that the parametric frequency conversion in chi(2) microresonators is accompanied by stepwise changes in the signal and idler frequencies. Therefore, a better understanding of the mechanisms and development of the theory underpinning this behaviour is timely. Here, we report that the stepwise frequency conversion originates from the discrete sequence of the so-called Eckhaus instabilities. After discovering these instabilities in fluid dynamics in the 1960s, they have become a broadly spread interdisciplinary concept. Now, we demonstrate that the Eckhaus mechanism also underpins the ladder-like structure of the frequency tuning curves in chi(2) microresonators.

A rhetoric of inauthenticity: critical object images in Woolf’s Victorian scenes

Abstract This paper extends the fields of visual and object semiosis, style, and rhetoric by introducing the concept of critical object images. It identifies five of their rhetorical functions in literature and demonstrates the semiotic and rhetorical specificity and force of literary object images. Inter-disciplinary concepts and theories used in the study are introduced before the concept is tested and developed through analyses of object images with critical roles in the Victorian scenes of Virginia Woolf’s novels. The inductive analyses trace the semiosis and stylistic affordances (meanings) of the selected critical object images, with reference to three categories of kitsch inauthenticity, and their formal and cultural contexts, noting the rhetorical function(s) they serve. Multimodal stylistics and the semiotics of visual images and of objects are used in these analyses, and the unique contribution of critical object images as rhetorical elements in literature is uncovered and explained. The analysis of Woolf’s representation of selected objects shows how the critical object images function rhetorically, through their stylistic connotations (here of kitsch inauthenticity), to present unambiguous meanings that are not openly stated in the texts’ verbal discourse.

Novelty Knows No Boundaries: Why a Proper Investigation of Novelty Effects Within SHRI Should Begin by Addressing the Scientific Plurality of the Field.

Research on psychological novelty effects within the fields of Social Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction (together: SHRI) so far has failed to gather the momentum it deserves. With the aid of exemplary descriptions of how psychological novelty is currently approached and researched across (certain main regions of) the larger scientific landscape, I argue that the treatment of novelty effects within the multidisciplinary SHRI reflects larger circumstances of fragmentation and heterogeneity in novelty research in general. I further propose that while the concept of novelty may currently function as a Boundary Object between the contributing domains of SHRI, a properly integrated, interdisciplinary concept of novelty is needed in order to capture and investigate the scope and scale of novelty effects within research on social human-robot interaction. Building on research on the New Ontological Category Hypothesis and related studies, I argue that the novelty of social robots can be understood as radical to the extent that their comprehension requires revisions of traditional core categories of being. In order to investigate the sui generis effects of such novelty, which should not be narrowly understood as mere “noise” in the data, it is paramount that the field of SHRI begin by working out a shared, integrative framework of psychological novelty and novelty effects.

Quality of life of patients hospitalized in the department of surgery with the trauma and orthopedic department.

Quality of life is an interdisciplinary concept. It is broadly defined and understood by representatives of many sciences, including medical and humanities. This is because the quality of life can directly affect human behavior, decisions made by him and affect the life situation, including health. The aim of the study was to assess the quality of life of patients hospitalized in the Department of Trauma and Orthopedics Surgery. The study included 105 people hospitalized in the Department of Surgery with the Trauma and Orthopedic Sub-Unit of the Healthcare Complex in Strzyżów. The diagnostic survey method was used. The research techniques that were used in the work are surveys. Both, the quality of life and the level of satisfaction with health, were assessed by the respondents as good. Quality of life in the physical field is ranked the lowest. It has been noticed that the quality of life of patients decreases with age. Pain sensation diminishes the quality of life in the physical domain. On the other hand, patients who are in a relationship have a much higher assessment of the quality of life in the psychological field. Education and age do not affect the quality of life and health satisfaction. Most of the patients assessed their quality of life as good or very good (83.8% of all respondents). Among the examined areas of quality of life, the respondents rated the physical domain as the lowest and the social domain the highest.

Solid‐State Iontronic Devices: Mechanisms and Applications

AbstractIontronics is a newly emerging interdisciplinary concept that studies the science and technology of electronic‐ionic coupled properties/functions, endowing the devices with new functions and properties by coupling the advantages of electrons and ions. Solid‐state iontronics, one of the most important branches of iontronics, refers to the iontronic devices that work in solid‐state environments, which attracts particular attention due to its overwhelming advantages, for example, the enhanced thermal/mechanical/electrochemical stability. Herein, the interesting ion‐involved working principles of various solid‐state iontronic devices, including energy storage, electromechanics, electrochromism, electroluminescence, and conductance switching, are reviewed. Meanwhile, the perspectives on developing multifunctional integrated iontronic devices and molecular iontronic devices are also addressed, aiming to meet the growing demands for next‐generation intellectual products. We believe that this review can encourage further exploration in this exciting research field.

THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF VOLUNTEERING

The article reveals the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of volunteering in sociology in the aspects of social activity and social institution. Volunteerism is considered as an interdisciplinary concept, while attention is focused on the fact that sociology and its individual branches occupy a special place in the multidisciplinary study of volunteerism. The development of volunteerism in the context of social history is analyzed and periodization is determined, it is shown that volunteer activity is closely connected with the historical and social development of communities and states, as well as with the formation of civil society. Also, volunteering is analyzed through the prism of a social institution that forms a certain system of life values and attitudes that assume a unifying function, communicative, regulatory, the function of forming and consolidating social relations. It is concluded that the topic of the development of volunteerism is relevant in the global humanitarian sense and volunteerism can be considered as an element of civil society and a tool for strengthening public solidarity.

The Mediterranean diet and One Health: A study in synergies

Abstract Food consumption patterns (diets) lie at the nexus of human wellness and environmental conservation. The Mediterranean diet, the traditional food and lifestyle patterns of the Mediterranean populations, is a plant-based whole foods cultural model of a healthy diet. The environmental benefits are rooted in the agro-silvo-pastoral farming systems promoting sustainable productivity, and conserving biodiversity and water resources, while also decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and future land clearing. Pasture-based husbandry results in improved animal health and welfare. Understanding the ancient hierarchy of synergies in this complex system can aid policy-makers, public health planners, agriculturists, and animal advocates meet present and future challenges. One Health Impact Statement Food choice can have a profound effect on human health and the environment. Less obvious is the impact on the health and welfare of food-producing animals. The Mediterranean dietary and lifestyle pattern is a plant-based whole foods diet, arising from sustainable agroecological practices, resulting in tangible benefits in all three domains. The synergistic aspects of each domain assemble into a complex system exemplifying the interdisciplinary concept of One Health that is crucial to meeting the challenges of today.